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Letters 'illuminate' the relationship between the two Beat writers

Barnes and Noble Review is promoting the release of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters. The edition is the first major release of Beat correspondence since The Letters of William Burroughs 1945 to 1959 and is sure to be of great interest to Beat fans and academic scholars alike: 'This first published collection of correspondence between the two leading lights of the Beat Generation illuminates the inspirations of the legendary authors of On the Road and Howl, tracing their fortunes and friendship from 1944 until Kerouac's death in 1969.'